[PATCH v4 2/4] ARM: Add atomic_io_modify optimized routines

[catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:01:22AM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Ezequiel Garcia,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:49:08 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> 
> > > Is this any different from the generic one introduced in patch 1/4? I
> > > would rather just use the generic definition.
> > 
> > Well, according to Will Deacon (and as documented in the commit log)
> > we can optimize in ARM by using readl_relaxed instead of readl.
> > 
> > Now, I'm sure you now better than me if that results (or not) in any
> > significant optimization.
> > 
> > > Similarly, a generic
> > > atomic_io_modify_relaxed() but guarded with something like
> > > __HAVE_ARCH_RELAXED_IO.
> > > 
> > 
> > No, that's not possible. As far as I understand, there's no guarantee
> > of _relaxed variants to be available architecture-wide.
> 
> I think what Catalin was suggesting is that atomic_io_modify() should
> use readl() and writel() (i.e *not* the relaxed variants), and that a
> separate atomic_io_modify_relaxed() could be added on architectures
> that define __HAVE_ARCH_RELAXED_IO.
> 
> I think you misread Catalin's comment when you say there's no guarantee
> of _relaxed variants to be available architecture-wide, since Catalin
> precisely suggested to guard that with __HAVE_ARCH_RELAXED_IO, which
> indicates that _relaxed variants are available.

Indeed, thanks for the translation ;).

-- 
Catalin